Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)

Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)

Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt toÂ a new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of oneÂ they left behind.

In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old CÂ©cile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas crÂ©che. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors andÂ then as legendsâ‚¬"and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber FBA-|300255
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 1995-09-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679764045

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